Hi -
I think an obvious resource should be the "Handbook of Disability Studies"
-- editors: Albrecht,Seelman, Bury, Publisher: Sage in 2001.
It is a massive tome and, from students' point of view, quite expensive, so
you probably would want to be selective, although I think many chapters
could be relevant. Perhaps your library could have a couple of copies on
reserve for your students, and/or you could work out an arrangement with
Sage (to honor the copyrights) and prepare packets with reprints that
students could purchase reasonably. For the record, I have no personal
(financial or career-wise) interest in that book; I have reviewed it for
the e-zine Disability World, in its June 2002 issue, which is the current
one ( http://www.disabilityworld.org ).
Best,
Corinne
Corinne Kirchner, Ph.D.
Director of Policy Research & Program Evaluation
American Foundation for the Blind
At 09:53 AM 07/03/2002 +0100, Kirstein Rummery wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I am currently putting together a new undergraduate course for our
>social policy and social work students (for the new undergraduate
>social work degree course and our social policy joint honours
>degree) which will probably be called something like 'Disability,
>society and social policy'. The aim will be to give students a
>thorough understanding of the theoretical models of disability and
>then to use those to critically examine the way social policy
>impacts on disabled people's social inclusion/exclusion over their
>life course: so to look at education, benefits, work, parenting,
>ageing, as well as how disability impacts on other social divisions
>such as gender, age, race, poverty, impairment etc. At the minute,
>particularly our social work students only get a short session on
>the social model of disability and only see disabled people as
>service users and I want to move away from that.
>
>I do have some ideas for texts to use but I have been trapped in
>health services research for the past decade so they aren't
>necessarily up to date. Does anyone have suggestions for favourite
>edited collections which could form core texts for a course like
>this? It does not necessarily have to be just UK focussed.
>
>Cheers
>
>Kirstein
>
>--
>Dr Kirstein Rummery
>Lecturer in Health and Community Care
>Department of Applied Social Science
>4th Floor, Williamson Building
>University of Manchester
>Oxford Road
>Manchester M13 9PL
>United Kingdom
>
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